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Tuesday, March 24, 2009

The 1970s Diet

Its writer londonlee, noting how much thinner people were in the 1970s despite the awful food we ate, suggests:

maybe the next slimming fad should be "The 1970s Diet": wake up in a freezing cold flat, walk five miles to work, stand on your feet in a factory all day, carry your shopping home from the supermarket, eat a pile of spam fritters, instant mash and processed peas for tea, have a big bowl of Angel Delight, smoke twenty Rothman's, and the weight will just fall off.